test and trace app

[Seeker]

I received a text this morning suggesting I download the test and trace app. I have a simple phone that won't run apps so I cannot anyway but I started reading up about the app.
It's brilliant /s
It's called the NHS test and trace app but wasn't developed by the NHS, it was given to a private company to produce. There's a teeny, tiny snag with it. If you were tested at an NHS facility you cannot enter the results! Here's a response from the NHS Covid-19 (the private company) to a tweet asking about entering their results.

"If your test took place in a Public Health England lab or NHS hospital, or as part of national surveillance testing conducted by the Office for National Statistics, test results cannot currently be linked with the app whether they’re positive or negative."

I would have thought that job #1 would have been: make sure you can enter data.

[Kenzie]

If you look into your Google settings on your Android phone there is now an option to turn on Covid notifications.

[DJ123]

The other issue is that once you have entered a positive test result, you cannot change this once you have received a negative one . . . .
It will also say you're in a high risk area, if your area is next to one that is high risk - even if your area is actually fine.
I downloaded it, found it to be flawed and then removed it. If i go into an establishment where i will be for some time (Restaurant, Cinema etc) i check in to the track and trace QR codes and that's me.

[Seeker]

update: they have now fixed it:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-apps/uk-says-test-result-issue-on-englands-covid-19-app-resolved-idUKKBN26I0CQ

[Biker Biggles]

I have zero confidence in this corrupted government and its cronies who are doing very nicely thank you out of covid. I take my own precautions and wont be downloading any of their apps.